iccup bugs and oldies

On March 11 2011 14:11 BoldMan wrote:
- Despite setting the default language to ENGLISH, the website will sporadically change the language to RUSSIAN, this being the site's original default language. (happens a lot while viewing SC rankings section)

Known issue, I hate it as well.

- language will change to KOREAN when viewing SC profiles (happened when clicking on a korean's sc id. don't know if the id being korean, or section being starcraft, has anything to do with it)

Same as above.

- when clicking on a player's gaming profile, the default game on site for searching would be set to DOTA; should put an option like the language option, to set the default game for site to SC

For me, the default is SC. It only occasionally goes to DotA and that's a known bug. As far as I can tell, it only goes to DotA for me when that person has played more games of DotA than SC (or has recently cleared their stats in SC). A very simple way to deal with it is to click one of the three SC/WC3/DotA icons in the top right corner of the page. I'm NOT talking about the tabs along the top. There's 3 small icons, just to the top left of the big ISL graphic on the right side.

- in the original iccup file link for scbw download folder, still hosted by the original russian website, nothing has been updated in a very long time, including map pack, launcher version, scbw version, bwchart
(this requires every player (we're talking thousands) to manually update the map pack, sc version, bwchart, and wait for the launcher to update)

Probably fairly simple to fix, but I don't see it as a big problem. It takes like 2 seconds to download the latest map pack and update your launcher. And it's not like you have to keep doing this. Just do it once and you're set. The BW version is up to date, so I'm not sure why you mentioned that.

- the contents of the aforement sc folder is not folder'd: players caught unawares will be met with dozens of more files recklessly spilled out

Hmm. I always choose "Extract to folder" on my compressed files, so this is never a problem for me. I recommend you do the same since a lot of other compressed files you might download are not properly folder'd. I suppose this would be a simple fix though.

- after launcher updates, it will sometimes just close completely, requiring another launch of application (it does update though)

Is this really a problem? Most applications that I know of require a restart (or automatically restart) after an update.

- Anti-Hack Launcher for "Starcraft - Getting started" page links to old version.

I think even the front page AH link is old. Lately there's been a ton of updates to the launcher so they haven't been kept up to date. Just make sure you update...

- windows mode has critical errors, and for some people just completely does not work at all, others it will work only sometimes.

I've never heard anyone complain about w-mode. As far as I know, w-mode works better than full screen for most people (using Vista/Win7). In any case, I believe we use the same w-mode that Chaos Launcher uses, so check if you can do it in Chaos. If not, then it's not really our problem...

- the join alert will sporadically fail; i would use this nifty tool to browse internet whilst hosting, and the game will make sounds, but on the same SC session, the tool will fail to make sounds

Again never heard of this. Can't comment.

- the windows-mode cursor when starting a game does not default on the center of the building

Does it do that in fullscreen mode? I always play in w-mode and I get to my main nexus just fine...

there are couple more i forgot, but i'm sure us starcraft players would appreciate it so much if some iccup admins could change some of these! personally some of these problems have been tormenting me for ages, i'm talking years

At the end of the day, we admins have absolutely no ability to fix any of these things (except maybe keeping the AH links up to date), just like how the moderators on TL have no power to fix technical problems on the site. It's up to the developers to do that, and they're pretty busy as it is. Some of these issues (page language, going to DotA pages) have been complained about for a while so I'm sure the devs are aware of them. Other issues like out-of-date versions I think are pretty easy for you to just deal with so I don't think the devs will bother with those. If we asked them, they'd probably just say "so just update it yourself...".